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Why you should boycott the GSL

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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-06 10:32:45
May 05 2022 21:31 GMT
#1
A great tragedy has befallen the GSL last night.

With his shameful trickery of the brave and honest Creator, the evil Rogue moved one step closer to win the G5L trophy and as such tarnish forever the legacy of the GSL. The situation is dire as it's seems like nothing and no one can stop the patchzerg, and dire situation call for drastic action. If no players in the GSL can stop Rogue from leaving his slimy name the anal of SC2 history, only a single logical solution remain, to stop the GSL altogether .

I can already hear some of you, proclaiming that there are still many options in front of us, or that Rogue surely won't win another, but you are as blind to the future as Chamberlain proclaiming Peace for our time. Nevertheless, I know some of you just will never accept to see the train coming toward us, so allow me present the case for why we should all stop watching the GSL immediately and take it off air before the end of the next season.


1. They are a bunch of liars: The G5L was "allegedly" created to reward a player that conquered Starcraft 2 in Korea five time. But that's just a sham, how many time did you remember Maru kissing a trophy? Cause I sure count 7. We all remember Stats tragic 2020 GSL final against Rogue for a chance to win his 5th in Korea, but did they roll out that fancy trophy? Of course not. Even the origin of the trophy is smear in GOMTV controversy, as it only was created to relish in cruelty as Mvp entered the final with a broken back, only able to limp from his hospital bed to the computer as the producer teased his imminent defeat by flashing the trophy he couldn't get. And now, after all that, we somehow able to believe that perennial round of 8 losers Rogue is somehow already at 4 GSL trophy!? Please, if you can't realize that Afreeca won't give that trophy to anyone but a nydus abuser IDK what to tell you.


2. No more Kpop: For years, Kpop was a staple of GSL finals, with loud display of the country favorite bunch of nonsense before the players started to play. Nowadays, when you organized your whole week schedule around a GSL final, you don't have the delightful surprise of tuning and being warmly welcome to the stream by an hour of a bunch of 20 something women in bright flashing outfit doing somersaults while signing in a foreign language. It's almost like there's barely any reason to watch GSL outside of Starcraft anymore, they even replace the popular adds by segment peaking into players personality and whatnot.


3. The chairs are wrong for Maru: GSL has discriminate for years against short people by giving them inadequate equipment. This had gone mostly unnoticed until ByuN body broke on live TV. It has been while established that only the GSL desk produced such him, but not all players are as expressive as ByuN. Other players of similar size like Maru (pick to prove that Maru and BuyN are the same height: + Show Spoiler +
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) have suffered long term injury because of the GSL recklessness. You can see the consequence of it by the fact that weird elongated giants like Rogue can play years and never have wrist issues while objectively better adorable little young man like Maru have a broken body at age 24. Should we continue encouraging such behavior? I think not.


4. Tastless lost his passion: Those of us old enough to remember the glory days of GOMTV Brood War coverage remember the soothing growl of his voice. But as his passion for SC2 disappeared, he just didn't seemed to have the dedication to stay committed to his unhealthy living habit. Apparently, he now only chain smoke a whole pack of cigarette on the days when he cast BW and you can really heard the difference.


5. Serral ain't even in it: lol can you imagine watching Starcraft 2 without the god king Serral? What's next, BW without Flash!?


6. You have a finite number of days on this earth: Watching GSL is a time consuming activity, robbing you of precious moments that would be better invested doing activity that stimulate your brain and create meaningful connection. Each second you watch GSL is one you could be using to compose complex dissertation on the state of pvz balance and why a particular protoss played much better and still lost.


7. Do you even remember how it felt not to wake up at 5h30 AM?: The GSL has robbed us of that blessed feeling of slowly waking up as the sun is already way up in the sky. They pretend that it has something to do with timezone of whatever. Lie. ESL has demonstrates clearly that there's nothing stopping us to enjoy Korean Starcraft at 2 PM in the afternoon in New York, well nothing if not the company lack of good faith.


8. soO is back: Do you really want to see him have another miraculous run only to get 12 pools in the final?
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16092 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-05 22:14:04
May 05 2022 22:12 GMT
#2
Mods plz.

But in all seriousness, if Rogue is the first to win the G5L, I'll be disappointed as a Maru fan but as a Starcraft 2 fan I can't really be too surprised or upset. Of course I along with everyone who has been paying attention is upset at how much Zerg has dominated recent years but Rogue has been around far longer than that in GSL. He's been successful for far longer than that.

He is deserving of the G5L if he manages to win another one.

My dream is that the final comes down to him and Maru and we finally see someone annointed with the title.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25875 Posts
May 05 2022 22:36 GMT
#3
Quality haha
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Riner1212
Profile Joined November 2012
United States337 Posts
May 05 2022 22:40 GMT
#4
they should go back to the old tourney format and keep prize pool same.
Sjow "pretty ez life as protoss"
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19288 Posts
May 05 2022 23:03 GMT
#5
I think in order to get G5L you have to win a finals and then immediately play Life whom they let out of Kespa jail temporarily. Loser goes to Kespa Jail until the next G5L challenger arrives, winner starts back at 0.
ModeratorFormer Afreeca Starleague Caster: http://afreeca.tv/ASL2ENG2
yoshi245
Profile Joined May 2011
United States2971 Posts
May 05 2022 23:23 GMT
#6
It's a troll post but sort of had me going until I saw a few typos.
Damn you to hell COVID, I want foreigners back doing GSL/Afreeca events in studio again though.
"Numbers speak about the past, not the present." -Thorzain
warnull
Profile Joined February 2016
United States280 Posts
May 05 2022 23:41 GMT
#7
Rogue likely would have won G5L already if he didn't get knocked out by Scarlett in the Round of 32, twice.
esReveR
Profile Joined February 2010
United States567 Posts
May 05 2022 23:54 GMT
#8
3/5 blog. Needed more cowbell.
Skill is relative.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-06 00:03:59
May 06 2022 00:03 GMT
#9
On May 06 2022 08:23 yoshi245 wrote:
It's a troll post but sort of had me going until I saw a few typos.
Damn you to hell COVID, I want foreigners back doing GSL/Afreeca events in studio again though.


I'm glad my incompetent grammar produced the effect my lackluster writing couldn't
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States876 Posts
May 06 2022 01:17 GMT
#10
Calls Rogue a patchzerg and the mods don't even give him a warning. Dead game dead forum.

(I love all of you)
"You know, I don't care if soO got 100 second places in a row. Anyone who doesn't think that he's going to win blizzcon watching this series is a fool" - Artosis, Blizzcon 2014 soO vs TaeJa
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10085 Posts
May 06 2022 01:32 GMT
#11
hahahahaha well done!
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
DSK
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
England1110 Posts
May 06 2022 01:43 GMT
#12
Yet another awe-inspiring shitpost with some valid points and bitter pills to swallow.
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phodacbiet
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1740 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-05-06 03:36:31
May 06 2022 03:35 GMT
#13
They don't even make any money off of me, how am I supposed to boycott them? If anything, they lose money with me watching because all of their spending on ads go straight to my adblocker.
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3430 Posts
May 06 2022 04:45 GMT
#14
How come people missing the most egregious one, no ZvZ final, stop letting Dark and Rogue play on the same bracket and give us the most-anticipated matchup already, bohhhh.
SpecKROELLchen
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany151 Posts
May 06 2022 05:29 GMT
#15
Just great read, thanks for the nice entertainment!
machinus
Profile Joined January 2010
United States291 Posts
May 06 2022 05:53 GMT
#16
I was really hoping this would be more subtle to get the rubes riled up!
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2578 Posts
May 06 2022 05:53 GMT
#17
leaving his slimy name the anal of SC2 history


Oh my.
The frumious Bandersnatch
RKC
Profile Joined June 2012
2848 Posts
May 06 2022 06:41 GMT
#18
On May 06 2022 13:45 tigera6 wrote:
How come people missing the most egregious one, no ZvZ final, stop letting Dark and Rogue play on the same bracket and give us the most-anticipated matchup already, bohhhh.



IKR? It's been forever since GSL had a ZvZ final. Brackets always rigged against Zergs. GSL should lose its premier tourney status.
gg no re thx
Drahkn
Profile Joined June 2021
194 Posts
May 06 2022 08:14 GMT
#19
His whole post is just a troll you dummies xD
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24227 Posts
May 06 2022 08:31 GMT
#20
what a post, what a time to be alive. I disagree with the last point though, I want soO back in GSL so bad
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